4+ hour, 54+ min ago  (243+ words) I got inspired to become a woodworker by Vince Skelly's tree trunk bookshelves. On exhibit earlier this year at Craft Contemporary near LACMA, these are tree trunks with one slot precisely carved out to fit a select stack of exhibit…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1440+ words) After a devastating windstorm destroyed more than 1, 200 Pasadena trees in 2011, architect Chris Peck spent the next six years gathering fallen trees, milling the trunks into slabs, and storing and drying them in his garage and his friends" garages while he…...